discovering the raspberry pi

How to play Quake 3 on your Raspberry Pi

Today, I figured, it would be nice to do some old school fragging 🙂 It is time to get my Raspberry Pi to run Quake 3. There are quite a few tutorials, but it took me a couple of tries to find a combination that worked for me.

For you, the quick way to get Quake 3 running on your Raspberry Pi is to download the Quake 3 SD card image for a 4GB SD Card from my public dropbox. You will find it under Images\Quake3\Quake3_4GB_autostart.zip In my previous posts I have explained how to mount an image on the SD Card by using Win32DiskImager. The image auto-starts Quake 3 on boot. In case you don’t want that, just use the following command after logging in:

sudo update-rc.d -f quake3 remove

Which removes Quake 3 from the start-up sequence. You can start the game by navigating to the directory where the game is located and start the game from there:

cd /home/pi/quake3/build/release-linux-armsudo ./ioquake3.arm

In case you insist in making your own image, this is how I got it to work:

Before you start, you need a 4GB SD Card with Raspbian Wheezy installed. Run sudo update and sudo upgrade. Start sudo raspi-config and expand the root partition to fill the SD card. Memory split should be configured with 64MB video memory. Reboot.

1) put the image on a micro SD
2) (in some cases with the use of an adapter) put the micro SD in a Raspberry Pi (version 1)
3) issue the following commands: sudo rpi-update, sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get upgrade
4) now the image on the sd is converted to the latest version
5) the image on the micro Sd should now work in the Raspberry Pi 2 afterwards

Maybe if I got a spare minute I will do it, but it shouldn’t be to hard for anyone else to do it.